Selamawit Lake Fenta 

✉ info@ahsu.education.com

☎ +250 788 123 200

📍 Selamawit Lake Fenta is an accomplished midwifery educator, clinician, and researcher with over 16 years of experience in maternal and newborn health across academic and international development settings. Prior to joining Africa Health Sciences University, she served as an Assistant Professor of Midwifery at Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia, where she played a key role in advancing midwifery education, curriculum development, and academic leadership. She holds an MSc in Advanced Clinical Midwifery and a postgraduate diploma in higher education pedagogy from Bahir Dar University, a BSc in Midwifery from University of Gondar, and a postgraduate certificate in leadership in strategic information (LSI) from Addis Ababa University. Her work has been recognized internationally, including being honored as a Global Champion Midwife by the International Confederation of Midwives. She has substantial international experience as an International Midwifery Educator, working with global organizations including UNICEF and UNFPA in India. In these roles, she contributed to establishment and operationalization of midwifery-led care units, the capacity building of midwifery educators, strengthening clinical teaching systems, and leading the integration of evidence-based, competency-based midwifery education. She has trained and mentored hundreds of undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as in-service midwifery practitioners and educators, with a strong emphasis on clinical excellence, respectful maternity care, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Selamawit’s professional contributions include leading curriculum reforms aligned with global standards, supporting the establishment and strengthening of midwifery-led care units, and advancing academic–clinical integration to improve the quality of midwifery training and service delivery. She has also served as a licensing examination consultant, contributing to the development of high-stakes national licensing examinations for midwifery and nursing graduates. She has disseminated her research at prominent international forums, including the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) Conference in in 2018 in New York, USA, and has secured competitive research funding at both national and international levels, including support from the Center for International Reproductive Health Training (CIRHT). She also participated in an academic leadership exchange program as a visiting faculty at Linköping University, Sweden. Her research interests focus on improving quality of care in maternal and newborn health, with particular emphasis on respectful and humanized childbirth, midwife-led models of care, competency-based education, and health systems strengthening in low-resource settings. She also works on advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) as a pathway to gender equality and equitable health outcomes, alongside innovative approaches to teaching and assessment in midwifery education.